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In our adversarial system of legal representation, ethical rules ofattorney conduct focus on protecting the client. Accordingly, the twomainstays of legal ethics are the duties, owed to clients, of loyalty andconfidentiality. The duty of loyalty requires lawyers to adopt clients'interests as their own; the duty of confidentiality requires lawyers to keepmatters relating to a representation confidential. A lawyer and client canthen act together as a close working group, generally governed byprinciples of agency law.